Kyrgyz Musical instruments
When you travel in Kyrgyzstan, you will be inspired by musical instruments. It is known that, oral and musical art used to be an important part of Kyrgyz heritage. In the course of a tour in Kyrgyzstan, you will have opportunity to learn about Manas epic, which was written in the 16th and 17th centuries as well as transmitted orally until the 20th century by Soviet researchers. When you travel in Kyrgyzstan, you are going to be stun by a big volume of Manas epic. There are more than 500,000 lines of text. In the course of your tours in Kyrgyzstan, you will find "manaschi", which is considered to be the teller of Manas epic. It is important to note that, they can reproduce an epic in a row without interruption. The competition is usually accompanied by the Kyrgyz national instrument - komuz.
There are poet-narrators - akyns, which are famous for improvisation. It is worth seeing them in your tours in Kyrgyzstan.
In the course of a tour in Kyrgyzstan, you will find Kyrgyz national musical instruments as komuz, temir-komuz, kyl-kyak, core, sorny, choor and zhetigen.
It is important to note that, Kyrgyz narrators used to represent their works connecting with nature and mountains as well as nomads.
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